Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-14
TELEGRApHIC BREyIrIEs.

Ueorge ". Spear, the veteran comedian,
is dead.
Cassagnac advises all who can to leave
Paris to-day.
Vanderbilts steam yacht Alva has ar
rived at Queenstown.
The Liberals will give a banquet to the
Parnellites on the oath inst
c. f. Pope was shot dead by Al Schaffer
at Lakeview, Or, Monday night.
Floquet withdrew his resignation as
President of the French Chamber.
Florida orange-growers regard the pro-
gress of the Calitornians with disfavor.
Boss Shepherd has returned to the
United States from Mexico for his health.
The sensational story of the imprison-
| ment of Manager Bird in Mexico has ex
ploded.
The Germans in Paris will not show
themselves to-day, the day of the fall of the
Bastile.
Blaine has gone on a visit to Andrew
Carnegie, at Kidgraston House, Perthshire,
Scotland.
O'Donovan Rosa, the New York Anarch-
list, was badly frightened about the threats
of a creditor.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Nogales,
between railroad brakeman and negro,
| from jealousy.
Sergeant Major Mitchell, First Infantry,
| n. G. c.. died at Healdsburg from exposure
and overwork.
The Treasury Department reports heavy
increases this year in the circulation of
gold and silver.
| The Biennial Council of the Union
American Hebrew Congregations is in ses-
sion at Pittsburg.
Charles A. Wetmore is fighting the San
Diego Supervisors on the issue of selling
liquors on the beach.
The yacht Wolf was burned to the wa
ter's edge off New Haven lighthouse, the
party barely escaping.
The Yuba county Board of Equalization
has been making heavy increase in the as
| sessed valuation of property.
Queen Victoria yesterday attended a
garden party at the house residence of
Lord Salisbury, in Hertfordshire.
The Road Overseer contest between
the Nevada county Supervisors and appli-
cants for appointments is to be taken INTO
Court.
The inquest in the case of VIM. Daniels,
the wealthy Tennesseean who died sud-
denly at Los Angeles, resulted in verdict
of natural death.
Chas. H. Hoyt, author of A Tin Sol
der " and other farces, was married Tues
day night at Charleston, n. H., to Flora
Walsh, the actress.
Mgr. Persico, the special Papal Envoy to
Ireland, accompanied by Archbishop
Walsh, has already visited many of the
Catholic institutions in the Irish diocese.
Van Haltren, the young Californian,
now pitching for the Chicago Club, con-
tinues to be the lion of the day in baseball
circles in the East. Whenever he pitches
the Chicagos win.
During the four weeks ending on Tues
day the highest daily temperature in Chi
cago has averaged So a record unprece-
dented in the history of Chicago. On Fri
day the temperature reached go.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Ger
many have arrived at the Isle of Wight
on their yacht. While the yacht was pro-
ceeding from Portsmouth she collided with
the British ship Oronth and was much
damaged.
A fire which broke out in the Lafayette
House, at Hanford, on Tuesday night, not
withstauding the most strenuous efforts
were made to check it, destroyed the whole
business portion of the town, from Douty
to Harris street.
On Monday night, on the farm of ]. P.
Onstotte, three miles north of Marysville, a
combined harvester was found to be on fire,
and the utmost exertion of the men failed
to save it. The harvester was the property
of Tom Stafford, of Live Oak.
Prince Eristoff, who was horsewhipped
by the Marquis de Lenville in London,
while riding in Mrs. Frank Leslie's car
rage in Hyde Park, has disappeared. The
trouble grew out of the anger of the Mar
quis at the idea that Mrs. Leslie should re-
ceive the attentions of anyone after she
had rid herself of him.
Catalina Island, twenty miles off the
coast has been purchased by syndicate
for $175000. 1t is about twenty miles long
and from three to five wide. 1t is a por-
ton of the Lick estate. The island will be
made an immense summer resort and ad-
ditional steamers will be bought to ply be-
tween it and San Pedro.
Ex-Governor A G. Curtis, of Pennsyl-
vania, says : There is not one word of
truth in what is said to have been uttered
by Jefferson Davis about me. i never par
doned desperate with the understanding
that he would assassinate Davis, and had
not the money personally, and could not
have taken from the treasury $4,000, which
he alleges to have been the reward"
The Southern Committee appointed by
the clerical and lay delegates who withdrew
from the Diocesan Episcopal Convention
last May, have completed their statement
of the cause which led to their withdrawal.
The committee concludes its report, saying:
The duty and responsibility of the Church
in the Southern States in regard to the col
ored people is fully recognized, but there is
no call to take them into the councils. In
the opinion of ne committee the Conven-